A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

Q

8 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Quality

Quality: The rich stream of lords and ladies.

Quarrel

Quarrel: Good lord! what madness rules in brain-sick men; When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such factious emulations shall arise!

Queen

Queen: She had all the royal makings of a queen; As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems…

Queen Mab

Queen Mab: And in this state she gallops, night by night, Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that…

Quibbling

Quibbling: O, dear discretion, how his words are suited! The fool hath planted in his memory An army of good words: and I do know • A many…

Quickness

Quickness: Jove's lightnings, the precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-out-running were not.

Quips

Quips: How now, how now, mad wag? What, in thy quips. and thy quiddities?

Quoting Scripture

Quoting Scripture: But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them, that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my…

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